This is all Palindrome's fault. I'm addicted to "Big Love" on HBO. I never imaged this would happen. It's not like I planned it. I had been avoiding the show for years based on my distaste for polygamy. My primary (and only) argument against polygamy is that it allows the man to run around and be promiscuous, but not the woman. If he gets a "ticket to ride", she should too. Then Palindrome started posting about the show. And then other people commented. And then I found myself on Netflix ordering the first two seasons to be delivered to my home and played on my Mac. I'm half way through the second season. I have read the "episode guides" for the third season episodes, so I'm a little caught up about what's going on this season. Actually, as soon as we put the kids to bed, we're going to finish off the third disk of the second season. I can't wait.
I have to say, though, that I'm ready for the show to get good and trashy. One of wives needs to have an affair- say Margene. Only she needs to have the affair with the now fully adult Ben, who fathers her fourth child. No one tells Bill and he raises the child as his, not knowing it's really his grandson. Then it all comes out at a family cook out and Bill banishes Ben who moves to Juniper Creek and overtakes Alby to become the "one true prophet". Ana can come on as the fourth wife, but one night during a stimulating game of "Go Fish" with Nikki, they go at it on the carpet. The secret rondeavus continue for at least a season, and then they abandon it for some reason or the other. Barb can develop a prescription drug habit for stimulants to help her get through the day. All of the wives can discover it after one of the kids overdoses on pills they think are candy, and then they all commit her to a rehab facility (only after they vote on it).
Anyway, that's just some starting material. If they don't use any of my ideas, I won't be offended. But, I swear, if one of the wives doesn't have an affiar with a man other than Bill this season, I will throw a fit. And there will be stomping and I will throw myself on the ground. (Well, I won't throw myself on the ground. I might hurt myself. The stomping should suffice.)
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I'm hopelessly addicted to this show, too! Did you watch last night's episode? Not to give anything away, but you just may get your wish about an affair. I don't know, there just seemed be a lot of innuendo hinting at such a thing,...... and that's all I'm going to say until you work your way through Season Three!
And I totally relate, because we sat and watched all three seasons in two days when we first discovered the show! :-)
Summer- You mean between Nikki and Roy? I've read about that...but thanks for not giving too much away!
Now, I do think that Bill gets everything he wants. I've never wanted a protagonist to fail (I even wanted Tony Soprano to succeed!), but Bill- I want to watch him be destroyed. Probably my man-hating tendencies, though. He's like a King in his own little Kingdom. And I want to vomit when I see him have sex with all of those women knowing that those women can't turn around and have sex with any man they want (at least with Bill's knowledge).
But everyone's consensual, and no one seems too brainwashed, so I think it's alright. It's sort of like, I hate men who inflict physical harm on women, but what if they're engaging in some sort of sexual ritual and the wife actually gets off on being tied to the bed and whipped? I guess I sort of look at it like that. It can be a really horrible thing in the wrong context, but here it seems not so horrible since everyone (except Barb) seems pretty happy.